Pro Parsing Techniques With PHP, Part Three:
Using Regular Expressions

By Michael Schrenk

This article is dedicated to regular expressions. Regular expressions, or sometimes simply called regex, represent a powerful set of tools which allow developers to split strings, perform character substitutions, and extract text based on matched patterns. The patterns, used in regular expressions, are an actual language that describe combinations of type castings and values that match the text you want to split, substitute, or extract. Regular expressions are an enormously powerful tool for the developer who understands them.

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This article was originally published in the August 2018 issue of php[architect] magazine. You can read the complete article at the following links. To see the full issue, please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.

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